Owen Brake
Founder/CEOMulti-disciplinary engineer with a track record of building across industries—from high-performance brake systems to GHz FCC compliance and scaling production SQL databases with 10B+ records.
Previously developed motor controllers at Tesla. Held diverse engineering roles at Neuralink, Apple, Parallel Systems, and Ford.
Mechatronics Engineering graduate, University of Waterloo. Led the Formula Electric team, driving innovation in EV performance.
Ethan Childerhose
FounderCo-founder and CTO at Steinmetz. Previously at Rocketlab, Nvidia, Tesla, and Neuralink. I've worked across the hardware stack from analog transistor level design to 100 lb mechanical fixtures for environmental testing. My work has reached the moon, been mass produced millions of times, and processed the faintest of signals from the human brain.
Origins
We both grew up in the suburbs of Toronto and graduated from Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Despite similar journeys we didn’t finally meet until we interned together at Neuralink during our Junior year. We bonded over our passion for engineering and stayed in touch into our Senior year where we built the first Steinmetz inverter. We have both worked in the automotive industry working with low and high voltage systems at Tesla and have experience across the hardware stack. Between us we have worked on billion transistor GPUs, space systems, neural interface ICs, billion record databases, rail systems, and firmware for mass produced consumer electronics. Steinmetz marks a new chapter for us where we are leveraging our broad experience across the hardware stack to enable the next generation of electric vehicles.
